People who start "I'm leaving" threads should be permanently banned

[Lefty Scaevola]

He did not get the point yet, so forget streching it further.

Chris, you are sending a somewhat mixed message here, skating perilously close to, and sometimes over, a line (with a grey area wide enough on either side to allow discretion to bag or release you) while castigating someone in sight on the other side. Legal department affectionately recomends that you avoid "Britainizing" the actions of three individuals, even if THEY FIRST introduce the area with A. The Bristish pub culture defense, and B. The Middle Age Americans are prudes attack and diversion against the moderators. Extending further national custom/characteristic BS to a fight over international forum rules, even if to show up preceeding BS (which intention red_jon has not yet gloamed to) could lead to further disruption.

[Immortal Wombat]

Ah c'mon, thats nads. There's plenty of biased, bad boys from all over the world here. Its not our fault Spink was born here

Originally posted by Chris 62
If you have to ask, then you are either:

A total idiot
Have the IQ of a grape.

There is no third possibility.

Which one is you?

I have the IQ of a grape. But its a really really clever grape.

[Ming]

Originally posted by red_jon
And if I now say the same thing about New Yorkers that you just did aout Brits, I'll be banned.

You've BOTH said MORE than enough... if EITHER of you continue this crap I see a restriction in your VERY NEAR FUTURE.

Now Chill...
Take your personal attacks somewhere else... BOTH OF YOU!

[Asher]

So why wasn't Chris banned for his actions in this thread?

Just wondering...

Surely if Giancarlo did it he'd get at least a few days.

[Ming]

Both Chris and red_john have stepped over the line (IMHO)...
And if either continue, they will get restricted.
They have BOTH been "officially" warned... (including a pm sent to both of them)
This will stop now!

[Asher]

Have you considered having an un-moderated flamewar forum?

That way people can duke it out over there instead of dragging it into the real topics.

Wouldn't hurt anyone.

[Ming]

That has been raised before... But the owners have shown no interest. This is a gaming site first... not a place for people to come beat up on each other (however... lately... )

There are other sites already established for that very purpose.
Feel free to use those

[MattHiggs]

I'm leaving













yeah right.... you wish

[Ming]

Originally posted by MattHiggs
I'm leaving
yeah right.... you wish

ROTFLMAO

[Asher]

I would urge the owners to reconsider, then.

After all, they get their pageviews out of it. If people don't want to participate in flamewars they can ignore the forum. The people who want serious discussions and deport the flamers to the flamewar forum and continue.

Does Greek logic differ substantially from mine? Apparently so.

Who loses with this?

[Ming]

Originally posted by Asher
I would urge the owners to reconsider, then.

After all, they get their pageviews out of it. If people don't want to participate in flamewars they can ignore the forum. The people who want serious discussions and deport the flamers to the flamewar forum and continue.

Does Greek logic differ substantially from mine? Apparently so.

Who loses with this?

If you think this site is all about page views...

And who loses... The Site Owners have limited resources for this site. In their minds (and I have to agree) this is a game fan site.
The OTF was set up remove non game issues from the on topic forums. They have shown no interest in allocating any more resources to non game things. Other sites have set up "flame war" forums... non of them got much traffic.
Plus, it has the potential to spread into other forums. Now you may respond... just ban people that do... but as you can see, whenever a restriction happens, disruption seems to follow

[Lefty Scaevola]

Greek logic says that that sort of activity is better suited to the free fire zone, rather than the ultimate, greek, and interantional CIVILIZATION sire.

[Asher]

Ming: It's a good thing the flamewar forums don't get very popular elsewhere. What it'd be used for is to remove the section of posts in threadjacks that evolve into flamewars, push them into the flamewar forum and let them get it out of the system. Otherwise it'll keep popping up in other threads (as we keep seeing) which eventually result in the Big Bad Moderators coming in and shrieking and yelling for sanity. At which point they take it to another thread, and eventually are banned. Then the same thing happens once they're unbanned, ad naseum.

I still think it's pretty stupid to say first that flamewar forums don't become popular, and then say something about how it'd waste resources. Whatever, maybe it's just me.

Originally posted by Lefty Scaevola
Greek logic says that that sort of activity is better suited to the free fire zone, rather than the ultimate, greek, and interantional CIVILIZATION sire.

So a website about COMBAT MISSION is more ripe for flamewars than a CIVILIZATION site. Interesting Greek logic.

(Wonder why they're not a formidable empire )

[Ming]

Asher... I hear what you say... but...
Flame wars are not allowed here! Setting up a forum would only encourage it. Right now, the owners would prefer that the mods just enforce the rules they have established on their PRIVATE site.

And frankly, it is their right!
While we are all welcome to our opinions, it is their site!

[Asher]

You're right, it's their site and they can do as they please.

Let's keep things as they are, then.